Dictionary-Thesaurus Shorcut?

[jayjerome]

Any faster way to access those tools via a shortcut of some kind?

Now it takes an annoying number of highlights and clicks to find a definition or a synonym: highlight the text word; right click the mouse; click on writing tools; carefully move the mouse over, and down (half the times it slips off the drop down), and click on the tool selected.

Very unintuitive, and annoying set up.

Any helpful suggestions?

[DavidR]

I was just thinking the same thing yesterday. Unfortunately, at present, as I understand it, there is no way to take just any menu item you want and either (a) add it to a toolbar or (b) make a keyboard shortcut for it. Both of those customization options are restricted to predefined lists of items, though in other threads it’s been suggested that this may be a possibility in the future.

[Lysa_Envi]

This is a very good question and it does bring up something that I encountered last night when using the program. While using the Windows version and learning the various tabs and such I noticed I could not find either the American nor the English version of the Thesaurus.

Is there anyway this type of thing could be managed and/or corrected so a user can easily work with the application to maneuver changing the words – perhaps having the ability of doing so by right clicking?

Unsure if that type of change can happen in an update but it is a thought.

[Marta]

@Lysa Envi

This is a very good question and it does bring up something that I encountered last night when using the program. While using the Windows version and learning the various tabs and such I noticed I could not find either the American nor the English version of the Thesaurus.

Is there anyway this type of thing could be managed and/or corrected so a user can easily work with the application to maneuver changing the words – perhaps having the ability of doing so by right clicking?

Unsure if that type of change can happen in an update but it is a thought.

I select the word, right click. Menu comes up. Select WRITING TOOLS> then select online dictionary or online thesaurus
It can’t take more than 2 seconds

[sjk]

hello jay,

i have installed two free dictionary programs that offer short-cut/hot-key access. just put the cursor on the word and control+rightClick and presto the dictionary screen pops up with the word defs.

i use WordWeb regularly - more than the powerful The Sage program. WordWeb is not a fantastically powerful dictionary but it gets the job done. just need a little hint sometimes.

the hot-key dictionary access works in most of your windows applications including scrivener.

hope this helps.

[jayjerome]

Thanks for the suggestion, sjk … I’ll try those programs…

[seabird]

Thanks sjk, that works a treat!